Daily Archives: September 20, 2009

Barack Obama has demanded the Pentagon conduct a radical review of US nuclear weapons doctrine to prepare the way for deep cuts in the country’s arsenal, the Guardian can reveal.

Obama has rejected the Pentagon’s first draft of the “nuclear posture review” as being too timid, and has called for a range of more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European officials.

Those options include:

• Reconfiguring the US nuclear force to allow for an arsenal measured in hundreds rather than thousands of deployed strategic warheads.

• Redrafting nuclear doctrine to narrow the range of conditions under which the US would use nuclear weapons.

• Exploring ways of guaranteeing the future reliability of nuclear weapons without testing or producing a new generation of warheads.

He really is worse than Carter.

The lefties had this idea in the 80s, that we if got rid of our nukes others would to. It’s an incredibly stupid and naive view that only a fool or someone who wants us to lose can believe. He may be able to order such a change, but he is asking for some serious blow back. Iran and North Korea are arming with nukes. Chavez is planning to. And he wants us to get rid of ours.

Kirby tried fruitlessly to get his art back from Marvel for years in the 80s, only to be stonewalled because Editors were selling his pages illegally out the back door. He got a minor stipend from Marvel at the end of his life, but really it’s an insult considering all he did for the company. Now his kids may see some benefits, thought it will take years at the very least if they do.